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Comment According to the watchdog Spamhaus, 90 per cent of all email now sent is spam. With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus has shifted to data leaks. But before splashing out on content security, CIOs should take a good look at what...
[02 May 2008]
Comment The Spamhaus Project has been collecting information on known professional spam operations for years and its weekly top 10 most-wanted list of most prolific spammers is dominated by spam gangs from Russia and eastern Europe.
[10 Dec 2007]
News A simple means of identifying systems legitimately delivering email was proposed by Spamhaus over three years ago. Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture.
[24 Jul 2007]
News Spamhaus, a leading UK anti-spam service, will continue to operate after a US court rejected an attempt to take it offline last week. Spamhaus provides lists of known spammers to businesses, enabling them to block junk mail in their incoming email...
[23 Oct 2006]
Round-Up Spamhaus routinely exposes their customers and volunteers to extreme legal risk by continuing to engage in improper blacklisting, defamation, extortion and blackmail in the name of fighting spam. However, somebody the Round-Up has a great deal of...
[22 Sep 2006]
News The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ordered Spamhaus to pay $11,715,000 in damages to e360insight and its chief, David Linhardt, who had sued the anti-spam organisation earlier this year over illegal blacklisting.
[15 Sep 2006]
News At the time of his arrest, Jaynes was regarded as the eighth-worst spammer by spam watchdog Spamhaus, the statement added. The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a state anti-spam law on Tuesday by affirming the conviction of the first person in the...
[07 Sep 2006]
News At the peak of his spamming activity, the 24-year-old Texas resident was listed as the world's fourth most prolific spammer by anti-spam group Spamhaus. A major spammer who was accused of sending up to 25 million emails per day has settled a...
[05 Jun 2006]
Comment Though much US spam has traditionally travelled via China, the US does certainly harbour some of the most prolific spammers in the world, as well as the world's three worst ISPs for relaying spam, says Spamhaus.
[09 May 2006]
News The company's now-defunct domain shows up on the Register of Known Spam Operations compiled by the Spamhaus Project, and dozens of sightings of spam from Snipermail.com appear on Usenet's news.admin.net-abuse.sightings discussion group.
[23 Feb 2006]
News According to Spamhaus, China is the world's second worst offender in terms of spam, though it is still several orders of magnitude behind the US. However, Richard Cox, senior investigator for Spamhaus, told silicon.com: "This is going to achieve...
[22 Feb 2006]
News On Monday, Richard Cox, chief information officer of anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, said that "an email charge will destroy the spirit of the internet". A leading anti-spam agency has hit out at moves to charge companies a fixed fee to ensure...
[07 Feb 2006]
Leader Then there is the case of Peter Francis-Macrae, cited by Spamhaus as the UK's most prolific spammer. This past week has seen three high-profile cases hit the headlines in which spammers have been sentenced to prison.
[21 Nov 2005]
News Spamhaus, a group that identifies spammers and helps ISPs to block their traffic, includes Francis-Macrae on its list of professional spammers. A man described as the UK's most prolific spammer was jailed for six years on Wednesday at Peterborough...
[17 Nov 2005]
News Ralsky currently appears as the world's most prolific spammer on the Spamhaus Project's Rokso (register of known spam operations) list and is thought to have the capacity to send up to a billion emails per day.
[17 Oct 2005]
Leader According to Spamhaus, there are thousands of dodgy sites connected with phishing scams hosted on Yahoo! With the growing number of email scams out there, you would assume a company as widely used as Yahoo!
[07 Sep 2005]
News is hosting thousands of fraudulent websites that have domain names containing the words "bank", "PayPal" or "eBay", according to a leading anti-spam group Spamhaus. Spamhaus claims Yahoo! Richard Cox, CIO at Spamhaus, said: "They are hosted on Yahoo!
[06 Sep 2005]
Round-Up Earlier this year, Spamhaus director Steve Linford said: "It's looking like he [Richter] made a real turnaround. Richter's company, OptInRealBig.com, dominated Spamhaus' Register of Known Spam Operations (Rokso) longer than Bryan Adams' (Everything...
[12 Aug 2005]
Leader As a result, Spamhaus, one of the world's most active anti-spam campaigners, has said the UK is one of the safest places to send spam. Spamhaus and a number of other anti-spam organisations have noticed a significant reduction in the amount of spam...
[11 Aug 2005]
News Anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus has hit out at the ICO for failing to control spammers. Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, told silicon.com: "If I was a spammer I'd love Britain. Linford explained that Spamhaus and ISPs are the only ones stopping...
[11 Aug 2005]
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